Leading like a Futurist

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

Course Description

Overview

How do you lead in a future filled with complexity and ambiguity? This course teaches you how to see, shape, and share the future for your organization, community, and life.

Syllabus

Introduction

You are a futurist

1. Leaders as Futurists

Characteristics of a futurist
Core principles of futures thinking
Making futures concrete

2. Seeing the Future

Understanding how to see futures
Seeing multiple futures at the same time
Futures headlines
Building anticipatory skills
Building contextual intelligence
Seeing the future through systems

3. Learning Break

Learning break

4. Shaping the Future

Identifying levers of change
Implications wheel
Shaping through clarity
Backcasting

5. Sharing the Future

Ways to share the future
Sharing the future from what's here
Sharing the future through visuals
Sharing the future through stories

Conclusion

Obstacles to futures thinking
Siemens case study
It starts with us

Taught by

Lisa Solomon

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